Food Policy Old and New

Food Policy Old and New

The character of the food system and the nature of food policy are both changing, as urbanisation, technical change and the industrialisation of the food system transform the way food is produced, marketed and consumed in developing countries. The challenges are daunting and immediate – and need to be on the agenda of policy-makers throughout the developing world. Policy-makers are used to thin...

Food Habits, Old and New

THE ABUNDANCE and variety of man's food depend upon his control over environment. For primitive tribes this meant success in hunting and fishing, and discovery and discriminating use of roots, leaves, fruit, and seeds of wild plants. Later, as animals were domesticated and agriculture got under way, control over environment came to mean good management of crops and flocks. Today for a large par...

Old and new: influencing health policy debates.

Challenges for Monetary Policy: New and Old

The turn of the millennium seems an appropriate moment to assess the role of central banks in the modern world. On second thought, perhaps a millennium is not the correct unit, for it is the past century that has seen the rise and rise of central banks. One hundred years ago, there was no Federal Reserve System. Indeed, in 1900 there were only eighteen countries with central banks. Today, that ...

Health Psychology's new (old) peer-review policy.

Health Psychology's peer-review policy has been revised. Consequently, authors are neither being asked nor allowed to de-identify the manuscripts that they submit to this journal. This article explains the rationale for our revised policy. (PsycINFO Database Record